1. The quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.
2. The class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria; works of art collectively, as paintings, sculptures, or drawings; such as, a museum of art; an art collection.
3. A field, genre, or category of art: "Dance is an art that I love."
4. The fine arts collectively, often excluding architecture.
5. Any field using the skills or techniques of art; including, advertising art and industrial art.
6. Illustrative or decorative materials: "Do you have any art work to illustrate your web site?"
7. The principles or methods governing any craft or branch of learning; such as, the art of baking and the art of selling.
8. Skill in conducting any human activity: a master at the art of conversation.
9. A branch of learning or university study; especially, one of the fine arts or the humanities, including music, philosophy, or literature.
10. Skilled workmanship, execution, or agency, as distinguished from nature.
11. Archaic: science, learning, or scholarship.
12. Etymology: from about 1225, "skill as a result of learning or practice", from Old French art, from Latin artem, ars, "art, skill, craft"; from base ar-, "fit together, join".

In Middle English, usually with the sense of "skill in scholarship and learning" (c.1305); especially, in the seven sciences, or liberal arts (divided into the trivium: grammar, logic, rhetoric; and the quadrivium: arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy). This sense remains in Bachelor of Arts, etc.

The meaning, "human workmanship" (as opposed to nature) is from 1386. The sense of "cunning and trickery" was first attested about 1600. The meaning, "skill in creative arts" is first recorded 1620; especially, regarding painting, sculpture, etc., from 1668.

The broader sense of the word remains in "artless" (1589). As an adjective meaning "produced with conscious artistry" (as opposed to popular or folk); it is attested from 1890, possibly from the influence of German kunstlied, "art song".

In fine arts, "those which appeal to the mind and the imagination" was first recorded in 1767. Arts and crafts, "decorative design and handcraft" was presented in the "Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society", founded in London, in 1888.

A form of art which uses electronic materials; such as, moving and flashing light displays, as the artistic medium of presentations.

1. A French school of art and architecture popular in the 1890s; characterized by stylized natural forms and sinuous outlines of such objects as leaves and vines and flowers.
2. A body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers in a school.

Engravings and paintings on cave walls and a few open sites.

Parietal art has been found mostly in France and northern Spain, with a few Italian sites, and perhaps others even more distant.